Matomo 0.5.5 - Analytics Platform

Announcing Piwik 0.5.5. As always, please update to the latest version to receive the latest features, bug fixes, and support.

New Features

#692 – AnonymizeIP plugin to mask the IP address of your visitors.
#908 – add a hook to allow plugins to define the website ID to load by default when going to stats
#1097 – Installation/Update: file integrity check to report missing or corrupt files
#1129 – Tracker: table index enhancements

Bug Fixes

#59 – Feedburner plugin update
#987 – ArchiveProcessing: duplicate idArchive
#1011 – Provider plugin now limits row count to 500
#1027 – IE7/IE8 Add a widget (Widgetize) bugs
#1041 – Keyworks that don’t link to search engine page results are now not linked, as expected
#1061 – non-processable GET-parameter throws error message
#1071 – get/save language preference
#1082 – Actions plugin: cannot use object of type Piwik_DataTable_Row as array
#1087 – Multisites: date range selection in the calendar is be the largest available across websites
#1089 – sync up DDL with schema update script
#1090 – « Display JavaScript Tag » always showed name of first website
#1100 – handle malformed dashboard layout
#1109 – undefined function error in Goals manager
#1114 – all actions incorrectly labeled as Page Views?
#1115 – MultiSites: handle single quote(s) in site name
#1120 – refinements to the Live! plugin
#1132 – Epiphany misdetected as Safari
#1127 – evolution always shows 0% when current visits is 0
#1136 – handle byte count and other shorthand notation for memory limit
#1137 – libs/sparkline: rendering bugs with small values or ranges
#1151 – update to the Update welcome page: displaying full list of SQL queries to execute
#1193 – non-javascript tracking now disabled by default, possibility to record non-JS visits by appending &rec=1 to the beacon
#1196 – typos / refactoring of css
#1147 – plugin enable, disable, dashboard layout save and visit generator operations protected by the token_auth
– refactoring of the Login controller and views, and fixing the redirect logic

Maintenance

#445 – added a few .htaccess files to override overly permissive Apache configuration (e.g., directory listing, direct access to .php files)
#991 – redirect to Installation plugin’s welcome screen if database connection credentials fails (instead of an exception and a backtrace)
#1067 – page titles and for page URLs can now use a different delimiter
#1068 – internationalize the Goals plugin
#1091 – Feedback UI improvements
#1092 – provide workaround if parse_ini_file() is disabled; replacement function by Andrew Sohn
#1096 – plugin descriptions should be translateable
#1098 – auto-refresh the Multisites report
#1099 – added MySQL client/server version compatibility check
#1101 – numbered args in translations should be %1$s, %2$s, etc.
#1110 – handle IPv4-mapped addresses; detect IPv6 addresses at Installation
#1119 – remove out-of-date translations of password recovery email body
#1122 – E_STRICT clean-up in plugin API files
#1123 – reogranize browser families; convert WebKit versions to corresponding Safari product versions
#1133 – add ‘charset = utf8’ to configuration file on new installs (or reinstalls where tables are deleted) when client/serve charset mismatch detected
#1135, #1174 – more search engines
#1150 – outdated reports should be displayed rather than no data at all
#1155 – cookie path can now be defined in config.ini.php or in global.ini.php
#1156 – document SPL and Reflection requirements
#1163 – Palm Pre/Pixi detection
#1165 – UserSettings unit tests coverage expanded
#1167 – UserAgentParser issued
#1175 – update to Zend Framework 1.10.2
#1176 – update to Smarty 2.6.26
#1178 – remove unused/obsoltete json.js
#1179 – JavaScript API should have trackPageView(title)
#1181 – first day of stats, select today by default instead of yesterday
#1182 – coding style changes to Live plugin
#1191 – PHP 5.2.0 syntax issue
#1195 – comment typo in _pk_translate function
#1200 – on successful login, Piwik should redirect to the referer URL only if it is a Piwik URL
#1202 – utility nonce functions for the plugin framework
– piwik.js has been YUI-compressed since Piwik 0.4; with 0.5.5, you can now use js/index.php to serve up a deflate/gzip compressed piwik.js if your web server doesn’t have mod_deflate or mod_gzip (8.3K vs 3.5K)

Anthon and Matt contributed the bulk of changes for this release. Thanks also go out to Andrew Sohn, feyp, halfdan, jr-ewing, masterkeedu, pebosi, and yareckon for patches.

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